Profile 9 min read

Lessons from Linda Bradford Raschke

Linda Bradford Raschke moved from the Pacific Coast Stock Exchange floor into hedge fund management, building a career in technical swing trading. Her rules favor immediate market rhythms and repeatable setups over uncertain long-term forecasts.
Profile 5 min read

Lessons from Chris Rokos

Chris Rokos is a mathematician and macro hedge fund manager who founded Rokos Capital Management after helping found Brevan Howard. His “human quant” philosophy pairs high-conviction rate bets with rigorous systems for mapping central banks and economic shifts.
Profile 8 min read

Lessons from Michael Platt

Michael Platt is a University of Pennsylvania neuroscientist and director of the Wharton Neuroscience Initiative. His research connects decision-making and social interaction to leadership, asking how ancient evolutionary hardware shapes modern organizational behavior and business performance.
Profile 6 min read

Lessons from Alan Howard

Alan Howard co-founded Brevan Howard Asset Management and became a defining global macro trader. His “paranoid” approach prioritizes capital preservation while testing how institutional digital asset bets, crisis navigation, and infrastructure building can coexist across market cycles.
Profile 11 min read

Lessons from Bruce Kovner

Bruce Kovner built Caxton Associates from a credit-card-funded start, applying macro theory and rigid risk management. His trajectory from taxi driver to Juilliard chairman shows why discipline, more than instinct or ambition, is the essential operating requirement.
Profile 7 min read

Lessons from Louis Bacon

Louis Bacon’s domain is the global macro mindset, establishing a narrow but consequential question: how does an operator build a coherent view across large-scale forces while preserving the independent judgment required to act on it?
Profile 10 min read

Lessons from Pierre Andurand

Pierre Andurand runs Andurand Capital Management, making high-conviction bets across energy and metals. His search for structural supply imbalances shows how asymmetric opportunity can emerge from volatility and the disorderly global transition toward decarbonization.
Profile 7 min read

Lessons from David Harding

David Harding built Winton Group and AHL by replacing subjective forecasts with statistical patterns. Treating trend following as a scientific problem, he makes the lesson plain: sound risk judgment requires skepticism, rigorous mathematics, and statistical literacy.

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